Sentences with phrase «impairs fear conditioning»

In a previous study, Nesha Burghardt, then a graduate student at New York University, and her colleagues demonstrated that long - term SSRI treatment impairs fear conditioning in rats.

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Thus, blocking endogenous μ - opioid neurotransmission enhances the acquisition of conditioned fear (43) and impairs the acquisition of extinction or learned safety (44 — 46).

Furthermore, neuroimaging studies investigating the neural correlates that underlie emotional processing deficits characteristic for youth with ODD problems, such as poor fear conditioning and impaired processing of emotional faces (Glenn and Raine, 2008; Hyde et al., 2013; Blair et al., 2014; Baker et al., 2015), have suggested divergent results.

Furthermore, low levels of serotonin in the basolateral amygdala are related to reductions in the conditioned fear response — a response which is reliably impaired in adults with high levels of psychopathic personality (CU traits)[16], [17].